Any system of commerce and government which, by its character and function socializes loss and personalizes gain is going to be a breeding ground for atrocity. And ours, at present, is precisely this kind of system. And if you take a clear look around, you’ll see that our system is one of the most successful atrocity factories in the history of human cooperation.

Essentially, all but the uppermost financial classes are utilized as shock absorbers for the campaign to produce nearly geometric growth in the concentration of wealth and power within an ever-shrinking minority. As if this were not sufficient offense, the very same people are then re-used in precisely the same way by a wide variety of essentially predatory ‘corporations’.